Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZBravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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